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At 12:40 PM 12/1/99 -0800, Tim Bray wrote: > >And here is my attempt to explain why RDF hasn't been more successful: > > The syntax is hideously ugly and hard to understand, and the spec worries > so hard about being correct and complete that it is pretty well 100% > incomprehensible to ordinary people. Agree. I've written a product that used MCF (RDF's predecessor) and written schemas for OODBs, and I can't make much sense of the RDF spec. Maybe it is semi-obvious to anyone with a background in knowledge representation, but it needs to be explained differently for the other 99.99% of us. >I think its potential is huge, dwarfing that of XML. -Tim I disagree on this one. It's rare that metacontent is more valuable than content, long-term. I'll bet on the books over the card catalog, every time. wunder -- Walter R. Underwood wunder@i... wunder@b... (home) http://software.infoseek.com/ http://www.best.com/~wunder/ 1-408-543-6946 xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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